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Children's universal vulnerability against environmental degradation prioritising children's needs in environmental related policy and law -- Affirming children's universal vulnerability in environmental matters, the paradigm of youth climate change action -- Children's rights and the environment -- The right to the highest attainable standard of health of the child -- The EU's commitment to protect children's environmental health -- Chemicals -- Clean air -- Waste management -- Environmental assessments, environmental impact assessment, and strategic environmental assessment -- Children and the environment, pathways to legal protection.

The present study examined ecological awareness among preschool children. Three tasks were employed with 3-to 5-year-old boys and girls residing in rural and urban communities: a picture discrimination, a picture arrangement, and a picture comprehension task. It was found the young children are able to identify graphically depicted ecological issues with accuracy, relative to the nature of the task and its level of difficulty. It was also found that boys and girls, within the age range surveyed, were comparably aware of ecological issues. Moreover, no differences were found relative to the children's place of residence. The implications of these findings for ecological education and for advancing our knowledge of the development of ecological attitudes and behavior are discussed.

Aboriginal children represent one of the fastest growing population segments in Australia, yet the lives of Aboriginal children in their environment has rarely been subjected to systematic and in-depth study. In this book, Angela Kreutz considers the relationship between the environment, attachment and development in indigenous children, examining theoretical constructs and conceptual models by empirically road testing these ideas within a distinct cultural community. The book presents the first empirical study on Australian Aboriginal children's lives from within the field of child-environmen

"Although the use of tobacco products is prohibited for people under the age of 18, the tobacco laws of both Nigeria and Burkina Faso do not explicitly mention or regulate vaping."

Children can face disproportionately greater risk from environmental hazards because they are kids—smaller bodies, faster metabolisms, shorter attentions spans, less knowledge, and fewer resources. Environmental programs that reduce risks to children produce benefits to society that should be adequately represented so policy makers have more information to help them decide which policies are most worthwhile relative to their costs. The open question is just how exactly to value these reductions in risks to children, risks which can arise either from a direct effect on their health, or an indirect effect on their life chances because of illness in other family members or the degradation of the environment. This article focuses on valuing these indirect effects to a child's life chances. The question addressed here is whether standard benefits estimation adequately captures the indirect effects on healthy children. If policy makers presume caregivers make fully informed, rational choices when dealing with adverse family health, indirect effects are already accounted for in revealed and stated values: estimating indirect effects implies double counting of benefits. But if policy makers fear that caregivers face choice without complete information or experience, indirect effects might be understated. Then it becomes constructive to devote resources to explore the importance of these indirect effects.

"Today's millennial generation inherit a world confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a paradigm of economic growth that has contributed to unprecedented youth unemployment and resource extraction beyond our planet's limits. But the future is not inevitable and today on the streets everywhere; there is a strong, youthful energy for change. 'Children, Citizenship and Environment' sets out a new agenda for citizenship education which reflects both the responsibility and opportunities we are confronted with to support young citizens. In a myth busting discussion of issues facing young citizens growing up in neoliberal democracies, political scientist Bronwyn Hayward draws on the experience of New Zealanders, a nation where young citizens often express a strong sense of personal responsibility for their planet but where many face shocking social conditions. Theoretically informed and written with engaging practical insight, Hayward argues that young citizens today will need fewer lessons in how to recycle or when to switch off the lights and more intergenerational support to reclaim their democratic imagination and discover the 'seeds' of ecological citizenship and their own SMART ' handprint' for social justice. This book will be of interest to a wide audience including teachers in the Education sector, students and researchers, as well as policy makers and N.G.Os who work in the area of Youth Citizenship"--